Corporate Counsel magazine has identified the top 150 best paid corporate general counsel and a dozen work at Texas-based companies made the list, including the top legal officers at Baker Hughes, iHeartMedia, Yum!Brands and nine energy companies.
Updated – Energy Litigator David Elrod Jumps to Shackelford
Elrod and a team of energy litigators have left Dallas litigation boutique Gruber Elrod. Also lateraling over from Gruber Elrod are partner Worthy Walker, of counsel Barbara Wohlrabe and associate Hayley Ellison.
Oil and Gas Litigation Shareholder Joins Underwood Law Firm
Amber James will split time in Fort Worth and Midland-Odessa.
Texas Access to Justice Commission’s 2017 Deborah G. Hankinson Award Goes to HBA
HBA President Neil Kelly, a partner at Andrews Kurth Kenyon, accepted the award during the State Bar of Texas Bar Leaders Conference on July 29 in Houston.
Harriet Miers to Receive Texas Appleseed Good Apple Award
Locke Lord partner Miers will receive her award on Nov. 16 at the annual Good Apple Dinner.
Jackson Walker adds four-partner group from Andrews Kurth Kenyon, launches white collar practice
Dallas partner Jay Dewald, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, will lead the firm’s new white-collar group.
Stephanie Hildebrandt Named New GC at Archrock
Archrock, a Houston-based provider of natural gas contract compression services, has hired former Enterprise Products Partners general counsel Stephanie C. Hildebrandt to lead its corporate in-house legal department. A partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, Hildebrandt replaces Donald Wayne, who left Archrock in April to become the new general counsel at Quanta Services, a Houston energy services contracting company.
Baker McKenzie Dallas partner Melinda Phelan named chair of North America Tax Practice Group
Phelan advises multinational companies on international tax planning and transfer pricing matters.
Bracewell boosts upstream oil and gas practice with Houston deal partner Carl von Merz
Von Merz is a former lead in-house attorney at Statoil.
Polsinelli adds depth to restructuring practice in TX with new shareholder Trey Monsour
Monsour will office in both Dallas and Houston.